Like always with events like this, time is just flying by. In the beginning you think one week is plenty, and afterwards you wonder where it all went.
But this was a very sad race too, because Dane Allan Simonsen has paid his Aston Martin entry with his life. As a spectator one didn't realize, only after 4 laps he had a heavy accident and a long repair work and safety car phase followed. At Radio Le Mans they read out the message at 6 pm. Race and party went on, but the closer you got to paddock, you felt something is wrong.
The only one who expressed his anger that everything was supposed to just carry on was Giancarlo Fisichella at a RLM interview. I'm not saying that the matter has been ignored altogether, but in a 'professional' way it has been continued according to plan. As an outside spectator for me this was something between bizarre and macabre. The last fatal accident apparently went back to 1986.
Racing is dangerous, we all know. But it's sold to the spectators as action and fun. In that perspective I find Isle of Man TT more honest: everybody knows what they are doing and they talk openly about it.

Legends are not for Sale, support for struggling Nürburgring to fight against the threatening sale, which the government wants to push trough. I you want to read more, check out Save The Ring to get started.(Unstützung für Otto Flimm aus Le Mans!)

Great to see a twitter handle! @AllanMcNish Have not seen any on the cars though, maybe next year.(Aah, endlich mal ein Twitter Benutzername! @AllanMcNish Hab aber keine auf Autos gesehen, vielleicht nächstes Jahr.)

All grandstands completely packed.(Alle Tribünen rappelvoll.)

I love this picture: Loic Duval with his car.(Mein Lieblingsbild: Loic Duval an seinem R18.)

Alex Wurz - fair sportsman.

And Romain Dumas too.

Oliver Jarvis with his mechanics.

The winners from 2012 and 2011.

This is how the teams and cars are lined up.(So werden die Fahrer und Autos aufgestellt.)

I had a great time on the grand stand, stayed there for 3 hours. Especially when it started to rain you could see the driver skills, as they never knew what the conditions would be like. At some point four of them are together throught the gravel! Pierre Kaffer was one of the few who _always_ hit is apex, no matter what, great driving at these conditions
(Bis um 6 hab ich es auf der Tribüne ausgehalten - 3 Stunden. Hat echt Spaß gemacht, weil es immer wieder angefangen hat zu regnen. Trocknet dann auch immer schnell wieder ab, aber die Fahrer wussten nie, was ihnen blüht. Sind auch schonmal zu viert durch's Kiesbett! Pierre Kaffer war einer der wenigen, der _immer_ den Scheitelpunkt in der Schikane getroffen hat, das war schon stark bei dem Wetter.)

Next to the Audi garage was the JWM Ferrari 458. You're now allowed as visitor to enter the pitlane, but within the garage you can do what you want if the team is ok with that. So I tried my luck shooting some pictures from there.(Direkt neben Audi war der JWM 458 Ferrari, also hab ich von da mal probiert ein paar Bilder zu machen. Man darf als Besucher nämlich nicht in die Boxengasse, da sind die super streng. Kann das Team sogar eine Drive Through bekommen.)